Mowing at 6.5mm (0.25") // The Green is Filling In!!

I'm now mowing my golf green at 6.5mm!! It's really starting to fill in now. Tempting to putt on it now!
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[@joshoconnell2104]

I almost wish I waited for you to finish the green so I could binge the entire series like a netflix show. Seeing the progress is satisfying haha

[@stud3103]

So true

[@rachelbecker7498]

its what i have done started watching 2 days ago and now im here

[@MajorTnarg]

love how frequent your videos are keep up the awesome content!

[@TheLawnTools]

Looking so good bro!!

[@LawnTips]

Thanks bro!

[@BDP20PBC]

Removal of the dew is so satisfying to watch

[@stud3103]

So cute, smiling for the dad family time.

[@calebevans8437]

"Yo mate what up welcome to another lawn tip vid" so good to see you out there still going at it with the kids hanging out they are super lucky this is your job they get to spend so much time with you outside not just in front of a screen or only seeing dad when he rolls up at 6pm after work lucky kids 👍👍

[@nicknunez5390]

At this point I love every second of these updates, things are moving and shaking and the hard work is paying off

[@psallanward]

It’s looking great Ben!

[@LawnTips]

Thanks Allan!

[@TyTyTy87]

Whoever edits your videos deserves a golden globe.

[@LawnTips]

😂 just me these days mate

[@seymourbums4300]

Beautiful coverage coming on 🤩 You have some patient kids. Mine would of been trying to climb all over me 😂

[@PGvisions]

Me and my wife's first baby girl is just starting to roll/crawl around on her own. The patience and perseverance you had while mowing that green sent chills down my dad-spine. Great vid as always

[@TG-zd9de]

I just know that my toddler would beeline for that dam ever chance he could get.

[@LawnTips]

Bobby is very cautious compared to the rest of my kids, not sure if it’s because he’s the youngest or just a personality trait. Either way, I kept an eye on him constantly

[@googies12a]

A leaf blower is good for removing dew/surface water on the grass ready for mowing etc. I use a backpack blower to get my lawns cut when the weather isnt playing ball.

[@4u2nvme4ever]

Next summer this will be absolutely amazing

[@tippo5341]

Wow that's coming along nicely...amazing watching the difference each week is making at the moment, can't wait to see it fill in completely...is gonna be one green green and nice n even/flat...awesome work Ben!!!!

[@jffro]

Look at that coverage & colour 😍 👍

[@CamSmith-rx1cn]

Love watching the green take shape and really extra nice to see the little ones playing a part to help the dad ❤. Go champion !!

[@jamesroberts4795]

That's looking better than the greens I was playing on last week! This has been an awesome journey. Looking close now.

[@ZaneBrockman]

Awesome to see it filling in so quickly. I sowed a bent green at home in November and it took about 3 months for it to completely fill in and get it now down to 6mm. Great work

[@lawn.radiance]

Finally got caught up on your videos, what a journey! Looks 🔥

[@bear532]

That looks like it was a good day. Outside enjoying nature and putting in some work. The cute kiddos running around just make it even better.

[@markmcdonald1946]

Loving the videos Ben. It was especially nice to see the kids helping you in this one. Keep up the great work.

[@theaussielawn]

Looks heaps more filled in than the other week when I was there 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@LawnTips]

Crazy how much it’s moved since your visit 🤙🏼

[@TLF-ABC123]

that green is huge!

[@jlush444]

So so good Ben Sims. 👌👌

[@moonlight5050]

OMG....2 videos in 2 days 😀😀😀 Love this dude ❤

[@glenbuyer8738]

Great series mate, just amazing content!!!!!

[@kevrenner3889]

Already looking better than some of the greens at my local course!

[@simonstone3336]

Great work mate 👍

[@2908phild]

You won’t get these times back. Ya boy can’t wait to help. Fantastic

[@richardportelli1983]

Great work mate

[@gastongianfreda5170]

Love the vids, Ben! Just a suggestion, could you quickly flash the date when you cut to a new day? Would provide a great reference point

[@trevormuggeridge4560]

Last Aussie 😁. Ben, it’s all happening on the Lawn Ranch. 🤠

[@dylan8285]

Looks so good! Y’all could use the rain tho things are getting a bit dry and crispy looking in the background

[@rainey06au]

Looking absolutely mint, shame about the wash but never hurts to get a couple of extra tasks for good youtube content.

[@blzt3206]

Mate please try some tackifier for those washouts. I use soillynx by Clearflow in Canada but since it’s not a pesticide at all (completely non toxic actually) you should be able to find something similar. It works wonders for keeping soil and seed in place during germination.

[@LawnTips]

Thanks for the advice! Found something online (not cheap) I think will give it a try!

[@riaankohn7944]

Hi Ben. I'm in Cape Town and I'm redoing my golfgreen on my farm. What type of Bermuda did you use for your green at your old house? I had Bent, but it struggles in the summer as we get a lot of wind and almost no rain from Okt to Feb/March. Keep up the good work. Love your channel.

[@rowdyroddy519]

Coming along good. The bentgrass will be fine in your winters. It does just fine here in Saskatchewan Canada. We get temps avg -20c down into -35c , and snow cover from November to April. As long as it drains well, and you run a good fungicide program ..your winters will be a breeze.

[@wheelb4973]

I have lived in North Carolina all my life and grew up playing on bent grass greens . They did great but struggled through the hot days in summer . About 10 years ago the discovery of a hybrid Bermuda which had all the advantages of Bermuda but without the extreme grain you had prior . Slowly many of the courses around here have change over to this new strain of Bermuda . The only problem now is the speeds of these greens can get so fast that things can get a little out of hand .

[@LawnTips]

Yeah lots of experience with bent luckily from when I was on the golf course. Fungicide is a must due to fusarium. It does slow down in winter though. Frosts hit it hard and we only used to cut twice a week in winter.

[@ChrisRaethke]

@@LawnTips How often did you have to cut the bent in summer. In QLD (north brisbane) and thinking of over-sowing my hybrid bermuda tennis court with bent this winter.

[@wheelb4973]

Looking better everyday . What do you think green speed will be on stimp meter when green has matured ?

[@arp911]

Off topic, but you should do a Whoop review, I'm on the fence as to whether or not to get one 😊

[@wtfmimshag]

The colour of that bent is something else hey. Fluro.

[@smusgrav]

Cute kids!

[@vmaxxk]

Been waiting so long (couple days) to hear "Yo Mate! Welcome to another lawn tips vid." Would love to see ASMR style mowing videos on both the greens and the rough.

[@leighelliott5097]

Any plans for the edge of the dam where it meets the water? Nice sandy beach?

[@lvond555]

Don't think you even need to seed those edges. Will creep so fast. Getting close to rolling a ball soon!

[@diggerdavies1047]

Another lawn tip vid keep them coming mate

[@doodah4331]

Ben, any advice for a good generic preventative fungicide? My tifftuff gets a heap of shade in winter months and is prone to disease

[@thomo74]

Can’t believe how fast it has come on. You must know what you’re doing?😂

[@vincedonpsn9590]

It’s great to see the little scamps following you around. Defs need a few smaller versions of tools for them to help with. (In b4 child labour comments)

[@steveknievel]

WOOP!

[@benjaminmichaelbrown]

Prediction, time wise, for the initial putt? Also, what are your odds for making par on the opening shot...? Back pin...I dare ya.

[@msilv8335]

Broooooo your brand new reel mower needs a broom attachment! Dew+Mow!

[@noelcahill6707]

Id love to see allet send you a mower it would work well for you

[@brad2442]

What's the theory around regular top dressing (dusting) make it fill in? Does dusting it over the top of bare patches promote growth by making it try and push through the sand again? But how does it make it grow sideways thicken up? I still have some bare patches in my lawn after scarify and top dress with sand. I have over seeded those areas are you saying it's better to continually dust those areas?

[@shaunray6660]

All dependa what type of grass you have..rye, fescue, bluegrass wont creep and youll need to reseed bare spots

[@brad2442]

@@shaunray6660 I actually have KBG and RYE. There are only a few bare spots still and it is closing in on its itself but maybe I do another dusting and bit more seed.

[@shaunray6660]

Starting to diamond stripe!

[@liamkendle480]

I was wondering what happened to your old electric Solo sprayer! Mystery solved!

[@rupie78]

How is the bore going with keeping the tanks filled with all the water applications on the green?

[@LawnTips]

Yeah going great actually! I fill them up once a week with all watering in doing

[@jeremyringma]

Predictions on the date of the first putt?

[@alexsallery]

When spraying in 2 directions do you double the product amount or just double the water? Say the product was 100ml per 100sqm and 4L water to cover your area would you put 200ml per 100sqm in with 8L or just the 100ml with 8L?

[@shaunray6660]

100ml with 8L

[@mick-nardini]

Where's the first cup going?

[@notmyname857]

Yo mate!

[@justinbowles4671]

If you don’t mind me asking, where did you purchase your sprinkler head?

[@Aticone]

Are the kids eating a snacklebox? haha

[@frankiefallzonie1203]

Who said watching grass grow was boring

[@moonlight5050]

When will you start doing double cuts on the green....?

[@LawnTips]

I mowed it later that arvo again. Just wanted it to dry out a little more. Pretty much will be double cutting from here on in

[@moonlight5050]

@Lawn Tips this is one of the best series on You Tube....its spring here in the UK so about to start my lawn for summer and you are inspirational 🙌

[@SRM_NZ]

I use my blower to remove dew

[@shaunray6660]

Probably when its filled in/established but to many sandy ares still, might blow it around a bit

[@SRM_NZ]

@@shaunray6660 yeah...nah....you're only blowing the droplets, you're not blowing into the subsurface....the angle of the blower needs to be pretty level, to maximize the clearing ability.

[@shaunray6660]

​@@SRM_NZ yeah nah, plenty other ways to do it, you stick to blowing

[@mini696]

Why remove the dew?

[@LawnTips]

Mostly to prevent potential disease but also so I get a dry cut on the green

[@TheLoaaa]

Bad thing about being early, there’s no comments to read through 😢

[@ChrisRaethke]

4:27 Get out of the way 😆

[@leahsdreams]

A Dew Whip... So close to sounding so bad. Lol.

[@Striperman]

First

[@TheCropduster1986]

BUM BUM

[@homehobbiesandholidays]

Next project should be a lawn bowls and rink

[@chosen1one930]

In 3 more weeks or 4 I forget old the seed is but once it reaches 6 to 8 weeks old you can use a growth regulator to help creep the grass even more for the edges especially or whenever time after that.

[@tonymontana597]

Mate, I think he knows all of this

[@curtiscbear]

@@tonymontana597 yea he might know it…. But it cost him nothing to make a comment that others might benefit from. You on the other hand just made a comment to give everyone insight into who you are which no one benefits. Well done

[@tonymontana597]

@@curtiscbear mate “a comment”? Have you seen how many comments his made on this video alone? Honestly it’s pretty insulting towards Ben and his content. If he wants to give out tips then he should make his own video, not come on another man’s video and bombard the comment section. Ben is not out here looking for advice, he’s the person giving advice. His worked on greens for many years, hence I’m here subscribed to him

[@chosen1one930]

​@@tonymontana597 wow what a guy. No law against making comments for other people to read because I could care less about making a video. I'm a well respected superintendent of a private course for 25 years and on the other hand seems to think sharing information for anyone to read that might build a green is just bad, which is sad and shameful.

[@shaunray6660]

​@@chosen1one930 share your information somewhere else, if youd followed his vids for the past few years youd see he already knows all about growth regulators, fungicide immunities, mowing in all directions, everything your telling him to do hes well aware of..your like a chef coming in another (professional) chefs kitchen and telling him how to cook a steak lol

[@_maze_4733]

So how do you make Money?

[@chosen1one930]

You should put a rain gage by the green, 100 ft or so away this will let you know how much is going in especially during summer since 1 to 1.5 inches is recommended per week of water for bentgrass greens. I aim for .5 to 1 inch to keel greens faster and only water once per week so you get a better soaking so roots grow deeper not shorter...this is for mature greens not seeded and growing in for anyone reading

[@shaunray6660]

He knows how much rain his property gets brah, hes always adjusted his waterings to rainfall...lol dude

[@chosen1one930]

Remember you should alter your cutting path by 45 degrees each day or time you mow. This helps best with less compaction and makes the bentgrass or any turf creep together better and help from any grain issues from forming like you see with Bermuda greens. These newer super bents have had issues with grain patterns forming in greens from time to time but most likely this is poor maintenance, from mowing the same way, not verticutting and so on

[@shaunray6660]

Mate, guarantee by the time hes finished itll look superb..better than most courses. Rack off with your grain pattern shit, noone cares, this aint augusta with million dollar budgets..although hes goina have it looking pretty damn close for sure

[@chosen1one930]

Use a long rope, smooth of course, around 150 feet long than run around the green inna circle, courses been doing that since the 50s

[@tonymontana597]

Do this do that… mate, you’re annoying. Go build your own green/channel. He obviously knows what he’s doing and us as viewers are entertained and get quite a bit of information with that he’s telling us. If you’re so eager on teaching then to start your own channel!

[@shaunray6660]

Lol every vid...

[@tonymontana597]

@@shaunray6660 I legit see him commenting in every video too. Honestly it’s just disrespectful towards the content creator at this point. If you know so much want to help others this badly, go start your own channel!

[@chosen1one930]

Why do you not mow with the dew on the green? It doesn't hurt the mower or turf, every golf course does it that way, we even water greens if there is nondew from it being windy

[@LawnTips]

Hey mate, I think you need to start your own channel. Lots of comments. I’m a qualified greenkeeper and am super aware of everything you mention. Plus, not mowing when Dewey cause it picks up too much sand on the rear roller cause the green isn’t filled in

[@tonymontana597]

@@LawnTips how bloody annoying is he?! Coming onto your channel and dishing out comments like this. What a mr know it all

[@emmett3067]

@@LawnTips Savage. Love it.

[@shaunray6660]

My question to you is..why when under no strict schedules and time contraints, having to avoid players etc, why not wait till its dry? Save making a mess of the mower, mess of ya boots, and have a far more enjoyable mow 🤔 And if your looking to get scientific, whos to say its not more beneficial to let the full grass blade dry out, get a bit of morning sun, warm the ground a little and then cut..

[@chosen1one930]

Should always mention for the noobs or less informed that you should always rotate your fungicides, using 3 to 4 different kinds so the turf doesn't build up a immunity to any one fungicide class / group.

[@chosen1one930]

You should start backing off so much fertilizer with it being so close to creeping together. Just a pro tip

[@bryan4907]

Why is that? Is not just promoting that creeping?

[@Steven15889]

I don’t think I need to tell you but be careful with your kids around that dam, I noticed your boy close to it while you’re up the other end. I know I should mind my business but there is nothing more tragic.

[@LawnTips]

Very aware mate 👍🏽 I constantly looked out for him throughout the whole process

[@lukehenderson496]

Your wife went to a wedding without you? Unless you chose not to go which I hope but If I had a girl I wouldn’t let her go to a wedding by herself knowing what I’ve walked in on during them. lol

[@LawnTips]

Unfortunately our babysitters fell through. It was her cousins wedding so she wanted to go. Devo I missed out

[@homegrownfrags6531]

Can we see a few "pre putt putts" 😉😘😘